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April 20, 2022 2:03 PM
US Tax Day 2022. How leaving it to the last day impacts tax sites
How tax related websites were impacted by the Tax Day 2022 (the April 18 deadline to fill federal and state taxes)? With the highest growth in April...
April 12, 2022 1:12 PM
DDoS Attack Trends for 2022 Q1
Welcome to our first DDoS report of 2022, and the ninth in total so far. This report includes new data points and insights both in the application-layer and network-layer sections — as observed across the global Cloudflare network between January and March 2022...
April 11, 2022 5:30 PM
The 2022 French Presidential election leaves its mark on the Internet
What happens to the Internet trends in France when an election like the 2022 French presidential happens? Here are some answers....
March 29, 2022 12:37 PM
How the Oscars impacted the Internet (at least in the US)
How the Internet was impacted by the Oscars 2022 moments, including the Will Smith incident...
February 14, 2022 8:00 PM
Who won Super Bowl LVI? A look at Internet traffic during the big game
By now, everyone knows that the Los Angeles Rams won, but we also want to look at which Super Bowl advertisers were the biggest winners, and how traffic to food delivery services, social media and messaging apps, and sports and betting websites changed throughout the game...
January 10, 2022 1:58 PM
DDoS Attack Trends for Q4 2021
In Q4, we observed a 95% increase in L3/4 DDoS attacks and record-breaking levels of Ransom DDoS attacks. The Manufacturing industry was the most targeted alongside a 5,800% increase in SNMP-based DDoS attacks and massive campaigns against VoIP providers around the world...
December 23, 2021 3:51 PM
Cloudflare Radar's 2021 Year In Review
In 2021, we continued to live with the effects of the COVID pandemic and Internet traffic was also impacted (differently than in 2020) from it....
December 20, 2021 3:09 PM
In 2021, the Internet went for TikTok, space and beyond
Join us in our Year in Review 2021 focused on the most popular domains-websites...
December 03, 2021 6:59 PM
The Grinch Bot is Stealing Christmas!
Bots moved quickly this holiday season, launching over 1 trillion requests on Black Friday but quickly receding after the weekend....
November 30, 2021 5:49 PM
Thanksgiving’s biggest online shopping day was Cyber Monday, but other days were close behind
November comes, the temperatures start to get colder for most of the planet's population (87% live in the Northern Hemisphere) and many are also starting to prepare for the festive season. ...
November 29, 2021 6:30 PM
Attack Maps now available on Radar
We love line and bar graphs, but some data is best represented with different visualizations. We’re introducing world maps and sankey visualizations as part of Radar Maps, which are being used today to show you the top layer 7 attacks in real time....
November 09, 2021 12:59 PM
A Brief History of the Meris Botnet
Over the past months, we’ve been tracking and analyzing the activity of the Meris botnet....
October 08, 2021 3:16 PM
What happened on the Internet during the Facebook outage
Today, we're going to show you how the Facebook and affiliate sites downtime affected us, and what we can see in our data....
October 07, 2021 2:20 AM
Update on recent VoIP attacks: What should I do if I’m attacked?
Because of the sustained attacks we are observing, we are sharing details on recent attack patterns, what steps they should take before an attack, and what to do after an attack has taken place....